Honoré de Balzac

CC 's education took place at home. At about fourteen she was studying music, drawing, French, possibly German, Latin, Greek, history, geography, and mathematics. She became fluent in French and later took great pleasure in...

Following her withdrawal from Bryn Mawr, HD (with Pound 's assistance) embarked on an intensive independent study programme that lasted for five years. During this period she read and studied writers such as William Morris

Her father was also important in her education, encouraging her interest in history, politics (from a liberal standpoint), and the writings of Balzac and Stendhal . She wrote in an early diary, I must study...

Letters between CC and her husband reveal an affectionate and caring relationship. In a letter to her dated May 1840 he writes: You are rather a shabby correspondent. I have, however, got you Balzac and...

GS was portrayed as Mademoiselle de Touches in Balzac 's novel Béatrix, a fictionalized account of the love affair between Franz Liszt and Marie d'Agoult .

It was while working for the Figaro that she met Honoré de Balzac and the journalist Henri de Latouche . Another writer who became a friend and mentor to her was critic Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve .

Charlotte's Inheritance treats the Stock Exchange and a poisoner based on art critic and murderer Thomas Griffiths Wainewright . Both these books, according to Wolff, reveal the influence of Collins and Balzac , about whose...

This book, abounding in satirical vignettes, is the first of AB 's anti-romances. Its protagonist is a university lecturer who, looking back at forty on her experience since childhood, knew that her life had been...

Like her earlier novels, this one seems to be partly based on her relationship with Renée Vivien , who committed suicide twenty years before it was published. The story is told from the point of...

In each novel Toby, who comes from a lower-middle-class South London background and is sharply aware of the utility of women for a handsome young man like himself with the intention of rising in the...

Though ML was familiar with the canonical English Victorian novelists (and, less usually, with Samuel Richardson 's Sir Charles Grandison, to whose great length she alludes with approval), those writers she acknowledged as influences...

The antecedents of Braddon's work were both print and stage melodrama, and as her career progressed her work increasingly reflected the influence of French realists and naturalists: Flaubert , Balzac , and Zola .

The Athenæum criticized this novel for mock eloquence and thought anyone choosing to read it was making a very bad use of their freedom. In...

The novel met with high praise from Balzac , and a critic at the Revue des Deux Mondes thought it better than anything by Germaine de Staël . These two knew the author's gender, but...

The book elicited strong reactions, most of them positive. It was highly praised by Philip Kent , who wrote a long article about it instead of his usual shorter reviews in Life, a weekly...